Conquest Quotes

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.